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Centaur Holdings announces its results for the 6 months ended 31 December 2005

Centaur Holdings plc "(Centaur)" today announces its results for the six months ended 31 December 2005. A statement explaining the effects on Centaur's financial statements of adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is also published today.

Turnover for the six months is up 7% year-on-year to £33.8m and adjusted Profit Before Tax is up by 75% to £3.1m.

The highlights of the period include:

Overall advertising revenues up 8%, with particularly strong performance by the Legal & Financial division.
Perfect Information reports £0.6 million improvement in EBITDA to £0.6 million led by 8% revenue growth and benefits of prior year cost savings.
New product development activity continuing, including two new magazines, three new events and two new websites launched in period.
Four acquisitions completed since July 2005 - Supply Chain Business and Logistics Europe; The Recruiter; Period Living and Headline Money.
Interim dividend of 0.6 pence per share proposed.

Graham Sherren, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Centaur Holdings plc, said: "The results in the first half show further satisfactory year-on-year growth, reflecting the success of our strategy of creating market-leading products across a range of market sectors. The outlook for the second half is positive and we remain confident about the outcome for the full year to 30 June 2006."

For a copy of the full statement, please click here.

And to read the statement on IFRS, please click here.

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